Jill

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪl/

The English word “Jill” has 3 meanings listed here.

proper noun

A generic use for any female (as Sheila in Australian English), especially paired (since the 15th c., compare Ienken and Iulyan) with the male Jack.

A young woman; a sweetheart; like the variant spelling Gill it was also associated with various assertive uses of the term flirt, as in flurt-gills (used by William Shakespeare for a 'woman of light or loose behavior').
A jillstrap: the female counterpart to a jockstrap.

A variant of Gill, diminutive of Gillian, a medieval form of Juliana, ultimately from Latin.

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